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Mehluli Sibanda, Senior Sports Reporter
BULAWAYO-based players are yet to join national cricket team camp in Harare ahead of the tour to Bangladesh where the Chevrons will take part in a Twenty20 International triangular series which will also feature Afghanistan.
The Chevrons players have been fine tuning at Harare Sports Club for the trip to the Asian nation, with the Lalchand Rajput mentored team to depart on Saturday. Bulawayo-based players are however, not part of the camp, with Zimbabwe Cricket media and communications manager Darlington Majonga stating that they will join their teammates soon.
Batsman Sean Williams, the bowling duo of seamer Christopher Mpofu and left arm spinner Ainsley Ndlovu are the Bulawayo domiciled players who were part of the national team’s tour of Netherlands as well as Ireland. The three have been getting some game time by playing in the Bonsa Spar Twenty20, which concludes at the Old Mutual Heath Streak Academy today.
Senior players part of the camp in Harare include Hamilton Masakadza, Brendan Taylor, Sikandar Raza, Kyle Jarvis and Peter Moor. Zimbabwe have a warm up match against a Bangladesh Cricket Board Eleven at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium in Fatullah on 11 September. The Chevrons and the Tigers of Bangladesh open the tri-series when they clash at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur on 13 September before Zimbabwe meet Afghanistan at the same venue the next day. Four days later, Zimbabwe clash with Bangladesh for a second time in Mirpur prior to their collision with Afghanistan on 20 September at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram.
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